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Personal Skills

Be not afraid of greatness … some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

—WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, TWELFTH NIGHT

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Project managers are in great demand, and we believe that will increasingly be the case as the need for effective technologists continues to soar. Good project managers are trained, not born. They are a very special breed of people who require a complete set of skills. To apply the leadership and management skills covered in the previous chapter, and often lacking formal authority, complete project managers need to develop influence skills. In this chapter, we cover personal ...

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